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    Infrastructure Winter 2019

    Vol. 58 No. 2   April 2019

    Transportation & Energy Issues

    A 100-Year Journey Along the Rails

    By Timothy J. Strafford

    The author serves as our conductor for the 100-year journey of railroad regulation. It begins with the Populist movement and the foundational Interstate Commerce Act. It concludes with the end of the “Big Government” era and observations about what lies ahead.

    Transportation & Energy Issues

    Lessons from the Economic Deregulation of the Airline and Telecommunications Industries

    By Debra J. Aron

    Airlines were deregulated in cold-turkey fashion, while telecommunications were deregulated in a piecemeal manner. This article examines the consequences through the lens of the industries’ histories, structures, business strategies, and technological changes

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